Practices
Industries
Value-Added Services
Developing innovative pricing structures and alternative fee agreement models that deliver additional value for our clients.
Advancing professional knowledge and offering credits for attorneys, staff and other professionals.
Helping clients respond correctly when a crisis occurs.
Providing our clients with legal, strategic, and practical advice to make transformational changes in their organizations.
Leveraging law and technology to deliver sound solutions.
Delivering seamless service through partnerships across the globe.
Leveraging leading-edge technology to guide change and create seamless, collaborative experiences for clients and attorneys.
Industry-leading conferences focused on affordable housing, tax credits, and more.
Providing actionable information to support strategic decision-making.
Teaming with clients to advance sustainable projects, mitigate the effects of climate change, and protect our planet.
Offering a range of investment management and fiduciary services.
Bringing together companies and investors for tomorrow’s new deals.
Offering fresh insights on cases that are delayed, over budget, or off-target from the desired resolution.
Courtroom-ready lawyers who can resolve disputes early on clients’ terms or prevail at trial before a judge or jury.
Creating positive impact in our communities through increasing equity, access, and opportunity.
Daniel Sovocool has extensive experience with self-insurance, insurance and guaranty funds of all types, especially workers’ compensation funds. He represents guaranty funds in federal and state court litigation and before regulatory agencies.
I represent state guaranty funds, primarily self-insurance funds, in connection with litigation and regulatory matters, leveraging nearly 30 years of experience. Clients include the California Self-Insurers’ Security Fund, the California Insurance Guaranty Association, the National Council of Self-Insurers, and many other industry organizations and groups. Recent matters include the successful collateralization of a large retail self-insurer in a merger and acquisition, recourse litigation against actuaries, directors and officers, and other participants in the conservation of the first failed self-insurance group in California, the ongoing prosecution of claims against more than 100 defendants in connection with a failed self-insured professional employer organization (PEO) established by a Native American tribe, and contribution to the successful resolution of highly contested bankruptcy issues threatening the vitality of multiple state guaranty fund programs.
Employers participate in alternatives to standard insurance structures. On the horizon are more state and private self-insurance programs and alternatives to traditional collateral programs, with more credit-based underwriting and guidance.
California
Cornell University, B.S.
Cornell Law School, J.D., cum laude
Daniel has been recognized as a "Super Lawyer" by the publishers of the Northern California Super Lawyer magazine for 2004 and 2009. Inclusion in Super Lawyers is based on a peer-review survey.
Subscribe to stay informed of the latest legal news, alerts, and business trends.Subscribe